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Rethinking IT professional ethics
Conference Proceedings 8th AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER ETHICS CONFERENCE August 2019
(2019)
Abstract
There has been a steady shift from business oriented computing, developed or deployed in a reasonably closed environment, to a far more open environment where a complex network of developers, users and applications are involved.
In the 20C environment is was reasonably clear who was responsible for the specification development and deployment of an application, and the target users were are comparatively homogeneous. The general term ‘business computing’ communicated a flavour of automating existing tasks, and for a known and well defined clientele, often within the same organisation. The leading edge of AI systems were then simple machine learning rule based deductive processes, delivered as rule-based systems rather than as adaptive systems with increasingly-less transparent deep learning neural networks.
The 21C growth of the internet not only expanded the scale and penetration of computer systems, but also stretched the links between an algorithm designer and the choices made for the final deployment to breaking point. The implementation of underdeveloped simple rule based systems such as the Centrelink with its flawed embedded reconciliation between ATO data and Centrelink conventions and automated action systems that assume a debt exists (20% of cases it does not).
Who is responsible for this continuing headache for so many people?
Keywords
- ethics it professional
Disciplines
Publication Date
Winter August 20, 2019
Editor
Matthew Warren
Publisher
Deakin University
ISBN
978-0-6484570-1-5
Citation Information
Marcus R Wigan. "Rethinking IT professional ethics" MelbourneConference Proceedings 8th AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER ETHICS CONFERENCE August 2019 (2019) p. 82 - 86 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/mwigan/46/
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